>Hi Tom, > >You said <<Before you start the roll, find a fixed point --- >> <<remember your bow orientation relative to it --- >> <<then see if you come out of the roll with the same orientation>> >If I do not have the same orientation, what is it telling me? Does >it mean different things if I am pointed more toward my roll side >than if I am pointed away from my roll side? > >Mark J. Arnold Hi , I am far away from being an expert in kayak rolling, but I am working on it. So far I have only done roll sessions in the pool. The first couple in white water play- or rodeo boats. These boats are short (~2m). If I did something wrong in this boat during the sweep roll (paddle blade orientation, paddle dove to much etc.) it lost the initial direction, i.e. I was facing the side of the pool or even was 180 degree wrong. Even after completing the roll it was obvious that something wasn't quite right. In extreme situations I wasn't able to come up because the boat was spinning and diving with the bow or the stern -rodeo boaters might call this a nice trick- . For me a clear sign to stop the attempt, get back into the stup and start again. Most of the time I had air for 3 tries. QUESTION: What is an offside roll? Does it mean that if I go down on the left I come up on the right (full 360)? Is an onside roll a roll were I come up on the same side I went down (180 down and -180 up)? Cheers Ulli Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H4H7, Nova Scotia Canada Phone I : 902-494-2673 Fax: 902-494-1685 Phone II :902-488-6796 http://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 19 2000 - 10:22:50 PST
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